Papaveracece Bocconia. 4 1 



Sicilian botanist. These plants are grown more for their orna- 

 mental habit and foliage than their flowers. 



1. E. cordata, syn. Madeaya cordata. This is the original 

 hardy species, a native of China. 



2. B. Japonica. A handsomer plant than the foregoing. It 

 has large oblong glaucous leaves, deeply lobed and cordate at the 

 base. Both grow from 4 to 6 feet high, and form very striking 

 objects in the garden. Probably a variety of the foregoing. 

 There are two other species, from the West Indies and Mexico. 



7. ESCHSCHCLTZIA. 



Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous and glaucescent. Leaves 

 much divided into linear segments. This genus is distinguished 

 by the sepals of its calyx cohering in the form of a cap, which is 

 pushed off by the expanding petals. Capsule linear. Named 

 after a botanist. The four or five species are all natives of North- 

 western America. 



1. E. Calif ornica. This species was the first introduced. 

 It is a straggling much-branched plant with large vase-shaped 

 flowers, bright yellow in the typical form ; but varieties with 

 white, pinkish, paler yellow, and other tints are known. 



2. E. tenuifolia. A much smaller plant, with the segments 

 of the leaves almost thread-like. Both are hardy and pretty, 

 especially the former, and continue in flower for a long period. 



SUB-ORDER II. FumarieaB. 

 Petals 4, dissimilar. Stamens 6. 



8. DIEL^TRA. 



Handsome erect, diffuse, or climbing perennials with much- 

 divided leaves. Flowers in racemes, terminal, or opposite the 

 leaves. Sepals 2, minute. Petals 4, the exterior oblong, con- 

 cave, saccate or calcarate at the base, and spreading at the 

 top ; the interior clawed, cohering at the tips, and keeled or 

 winged at the back. Stamens 6, in two bundles opposite the 

 outer petals, the filament of the middle stamen of each bundle 

 spurred at the base or naked. Anthers of the middle stamens 

 2-celled, of the lateral 1 -celled. Ovary 1 -celled, with 2 pla- 

 centas and many ovules. There are about a dozen species, 

 natives of North America and North-western Asia. The name is 

 from the Greek Sty, two, and e\vrpov, a sheath, from the beau- 

 tiful outer petals. 



